Stefan Pollatschek
Stefan Pollatschek ( June 17, 1890 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary - November 17, 1942 in Epsom ) was an Austrian writer and journalist.
Life
Pollatschek, who came from Jewish parents, initially worked in a commercial profession. He became a social democrat and in 1933 a member of the Association of Socialist Writers , which was dissolved by the Austro-Fascist regime the following year .
Three months after Austria was annexed to the German Reich in 1938, Pollatschek fled with his family to Czechoslovakia and from there to Great Britain .
His correspondence and personal records were considered lost until 2015. Up until then, the writer's external life story could be reconstructed to some extent , primarily through the testimony of his daughter, the writer Gerda Hoffer (1921–2012), who settled in Israel in 1978 . Gerda Hoffer died in 2012 and left the archive of the Theodor Kramer Society with her estate not only her records, correspondence, etc., but also those of her father.
The novel Dr. Ascher and his fathers , was created 1939–42, was only released from the estate in 2004, with an afterword by daughter Gerda Hoffer.
Works
- Dr. med. Berghof ordains 2-4 h. Vienna 1931.
- Destiny machine. Vienna 1932.
- The painter Rudolf Rapaport. The superreal in a portrait. Vienna 1933.
- John Law. Roman of the banknote. Vienna 1936.
- Flames and colors. The life of the painter van Gogh. Vienna 1937.
- Lecturer Müller. The tragedy of a Viennese doctor. Vienna 1948.
- Doctor Ascher and his fathers. Historical novel. Mandelbaum Verlag, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85476-129-5 .
literature
- Gerda Hoffer : On the 100th birthday of Stefan Pollatschek 1890 - 1942. In: With the accordion. Journal of Literature of Exile and Resistance. Ed. Theodor Kramer Society , Vienna. 7th year 1990, no . 2, ISSN 1563-3438 p. 1f.
- Herbert Exenberger : Stefan Pollatschek. In: The community (Vienna). September 7, 1990, p. 51
- Andreas Kilcher (Ed.): Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature . Frankfurt 2003, p. 475f.
See also
Web links
- Literature by and about Stefan Pollatschek in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry in the Herbert Exenberger archive of the Theodor Kramer Society
- Gerda Hoffer and Stefan Pollatschak - estate in the archive of the Theodor Kramer Society
Individual evidence
- ^ Biographical database and lexicon of Austrian women: Gerda Hoffer , accessed on September 12, 2015.
- ^ Archives of the Theodor Kramer Society: Gerda Hoffer and Stefan Pollatschak - estate , accessed on October 15, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pollatschek, Stefan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pollatschek, Stephan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian author and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 17, 1942 |
| Place of death | Epsom |